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18 years ago

DPA Word Alignment

I'm working on a Stratix III design using DPA on links between FPGAs on the same board. My question is: is it really necessary to have to dynamically train each channel to achieve word alignment? i...
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18 years ago

Agreed, but if you push things faster, than you'll definitely want to align everything at start-up, so it becomes an issue on whether you want to do that now or later on the condition that the speeds do improve. (I briefly looked at the waveform but haven't done enough with this recently to intelligently reply. Maybe someone else can help or you can file an SR.)